Mónica Ponce de León
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Mónica Ponce de León is the first woman and first Latin American to serve as dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey (2016-2025).
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Julia Guarino Fiechter
Julia Guarino Fiechter is considered the first professional woman architect in Uruguay.
Filandia Pizzul
Filandia Pizzul was the first woman to graduate with a diploma in architecture from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (1928).
Denise Scott Brown
Architect Denise Scott Brown, who won the Soane Medal in 2018 for the “global influence” of her work, was deliberately excluded when her husband won the Pritzker in 1991 for work that everyone knew they had collaborated on together.
Greta Submit Ogden
Canadian artist, professor, and pioneer occupational therapist
Louise Campbell
English princess, sculptor, personal secretary to Queen Victoria, viceregal consort, and painter
Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer
Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer is best known for helping to found the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) in 1958 during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers
Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers was an African-American educator, community leader, political activist, and businesswoman who was also a mentor to Maya Angelou.
Clementina Díaz y de Ovando
Mexican literary researcher and academic
Dolores Castro
Mexcian novelist and poet